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Coach Garrett Olmsted '68, a former Harvard oarsman, said yesterday that competition at the Nationals "will be stiff but interesting." The team will stay in Cambridge June 7-17 for two practice sessions every day to prepare for the Nationals...
...affront that Sadat could not ignore. Five days later, during his May Day speech at Helwan, he pointedly ignored Sabry among 40 notables gathered on the dais. Then, his back, ram rod stiff, and his brown eyes flashing, he declared: "I am responsible to the Almighty, the people, and myself." Next day he stripped Sabry of the vice presidency...
...only known diversion is hunting, which he does alone. He lives outside Berlin in a villa in the heavily guarded government complex at Wandlitz with Margot and their teen-age son. A Communist diplomat who has visited the Honecker home describes it as "spotless, functional, unimaginative and stiff-just like Honecker...
...protection to the politically powerful Southern textile industry. Two months ago, the Japan Textile Federation offered to limit shipments to the U.S. for three years starting July 1; they would rise only 5% the first year and 6% in each of the next two years. Those limits were not stiff enough to satisfy U.S. trade hawks, and Nixon turned the offer down. The President then further tangled the textile situation by mixing it up with international politics. He decided to submit to the Senate a treaty returning Okinawa to Japan, rather than handing it back by administrative action...
...later child's sex is different, however, he may be rejected; in any event, he is likely to suffer from not being wanted for himself. In other families, says Stephens, a father may try so hard to "keep a stiff upper lip, because it's the British thing to do," that he shows his wife little warmth, and the marriage itself breaks down. The grief over the loss of a child is universal and inevitable. But Stephens insists that the consequences...